Christopher is talking about replacing an existing entry - a note or chord or rest, with the Speedy cursor over the entry you want to replace. If you are in a position in the measure that is empty - has no entry yet, hitting Enter does nothing, since Finale would not know what note value to enter.
Sent from my iPhone On Oct 13, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > You say by "hitting enter" but in my setup that does nothing. Could you > elaborate the procedure in detail? When I hold down a chord on the midi > keyboard, I have to hit a number for anything to happen. > > Also, please confirm you are using Fin2012. > > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Christopher Smith < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi Robert, >> >> I meant turn the chord into a different one by holding it down on the MIDI >> keyboard and hitting Enter. If you have any notes that have been >> enharmonically flipped in the original chord, then the spelling can act >> weird in the new chord. Obviously, this will show better if there ARE >> altered notes in the new chord. It happens regardless if the staff is >> transposing or not. Chromatic transposition brings a whole new level of >> crazy in as well, but the problems I outline happen on concert staves. If >> you are having trouble getting it to show, try diminished 7th chords, flip >> a few notes (more than once on the same chord) and then try to enter a >> different diminished chord by hitting Enter. Are all the spellings correct >> according to the settings you use? >> >> This may behave differently if Enharmonic Spelling options are set to Use >> Spelling Tables or Use Default Spelling. I haven't really explored it, >> because I consider the 9 key to be broken now. I only need to be bitten >> once to dismiss the whole thing. I don't want to have to keep going back >> and verifying spellings in my pieces because one (or more!) may have >> flipped when I wasn't looking. >> >> Christopher >> >> >> On Fri Oct 12, at FridayOct 12 10:09 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: >> >>> That simple procedure (in Fin2012) presents no problems for me. Does the >>> staff need to be a transposing staff? I don't really understand what you >>> mean by "repitch it by holding down a new chord on the MIDI keyboard and >>> hitting Enter." When I do what I read you to be saying, nothing happens, >> so _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
